[Barrin92]

There's a lot oF China comparison in that article too, but if you compare China to India, isn't it accurate to say that China's policies in this domain have actually prevented brain-drain and created a significant domestic industry, the exact opposite of what the author and your take suggests?

looking at the globe I don't really see a strong correlation between the success of technology, even directly in social media and freedom of expression.

Nowhere on the globe do 'digital sovereignty' style politics seem to benefit American companies. Just seems like an ideological take. I think it's pretty likely that a Canadian or European firewall would actually just promote Canadian or European operated business, because natives tend to have an edge when local values are baked into the system.

[amscanne]

Maybe I’m not understanding your comment — are you saying that China’s censorship programs are helping to drive the local tech industry? That doesn’t sound right to me.

[Barrin92]

Yes that's what I'm saying. Specific example: Project Dragonfly effectively forced Google to leave the Chinese market out of domestic pressure. Chinese companies are significantly more apt at navigating Chinese regulatory environment than foreign companies, whose models are hardly compatible with it. It's incentivized Chinese firms to built an entirely parallel ecosystem.